| Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding (AP) |
AP - Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.
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| Data shows jobless claims drop, retail sales rise (AP) |
AP - A weak economy got a little lift Thursday with new data suggesting companies aren't pursuing mass layoffs and stores are a little busier.
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| New round of direct Mideast peace talks begins (AP) |
AP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders sat down for their first direct peace talks in two years on Thursday, pledging to overcome deep skepticism and disappointment with past U.S.-brokered attempts to resolve the long-running conflict.
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| Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast (AP) |
AP - An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
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| Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe (AP) |
AP - The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
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| Gunman shot as Discovery hostages planned escape (AP) |
AP - As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, police said Thursday that a SWAT team officer quickly shot and killed the increasingly agitated gunman who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four-hour standoff.
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| Study: 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection (AP) |
| AP - A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants. |
| Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown (AP) |
AP - India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
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| Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges (AP) |
AP - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested along with his wife on suspicion of possessing methamphetamines, five months after the hip-hop star finished a prison stint on weapons charges.
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| Oudin, Roddick bounced from U.S. Open (AP) |
AP - One woman's exit from the U.S. Open was jarring and sudden. Another's came off as sad and not all that surprising.
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